David Stevens
E491534
David Stevens was an Australian screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the acclaimed film "Breaker Morant" and his work in film, television, and theatre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Stevens canonical | 7 |
| David Stiven | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072137 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Stevens Context triple: [Breaker Morant, screenwriter, David Stevens]
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A.
Don Stevens
Don Stevens is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished from others sharing the surname Stevens.
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B.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens is a music producer known for his work with the artist Chaka.
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D.
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s and 1950s dramas and film noir.
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E.
Hal Stevens
Hal Stevens is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Stevens, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Stevens Target entity description: David Stevens was an Australian screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the acclaimed film "Breaker Morant" and his work in film, television, and theatre.
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A.
Don Stevens
Don Stevens is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished from others sharing the surname Stevens.
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B.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens is a music producer known for his work with the artist Chaka.
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D.
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s and 1950s dramas and film noir.
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E.
Hal Stevens
Hal Stevens is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Stevens, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| coWrote | Breaker Morant ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | David Stevens ⓘ |
| notableWork | Breaker Morant ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| workArea |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David Stevens Description of subject: David Stevens was an Australian screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the acclaimed film "Breaker Morant" and his work in film, television, and theatre.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Stevens